Becca Pulliam

From their spirited night of Chick Corea music alone, it's clear how Renee Rosnes and Bill Charlap love to play amongst horns and a rhythm section. Yet when they face each other at two pianos, with a wink and a nod, they do it all themselves.

There are three stages at the Newport Jazz Festival. At least two are always running simultaneously. Given the surfeit of options, it's rare to hear a complete set. The question begins to nag: Should be we somewhere else? And away you go, leaving a work in progress to make sure ...

One band is on the East Coast, one on the West and both give definitive, invigorating performances of music that celebrates what's best about America — jazz, bands, even Bugs Bunny.

Emcee and JazzSet guest host Rhonda Hamilton is onstage at Jazz at Lincoln Center to introduce a unique pairing. ...

The pianist Mulgrew Miller died on May 29, 2013, following a cerebral hemorrhage. The jazz world is grieving the loss of this "wonderful musician and great spirit," in the words of fellow pianist Kenny Barron. As saxophonist Loren Schoenberg so aptly says, "Mulgrew could levitate a ...

Noodling gloriously, sax men Joe Lovano and Joshua Redman feel their way into the acoustics of a new space with "Blackwell's Message," named for the irresistible drumming of Ed Blackwell, who parlayed his New Orleans parade beat all over the world. Coincidentally, New Orleans' WWOZ is ...

Allison Miller has a jazz portfolio with Dr. Lonnie Smith, Steven Bernstein and a host of others, as well as a pop career with Brandi Carlile, Ani DiFranco and Natalie Merchant. She's a U.S. State Department Jazz Ambassador, 2011 Artist in Residence at Jazz ...

In her 20s, Vancouver's Renee Rosnes received a Canada Council of the Arts grant to study jazz in the U.S. High-profile artists such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson (to name a few) gave her high-powered support. Blue Note Records signed and kept her ...

Arturo O'Farrill is at the center of a dynasty between his father, composer Chico O'Farrill (1921-2001), and his son Adam, on trumpet here today. Zack, a younger son, plays drums, while Arturo's wife, Alison Deane, is a classical pianist and professor at City College in New York.

O'Farrill's energy ...

On a Sunday afternoon during their honeymoon in November 1961, Mario Pavone and his bride Mary drove from Connecticut to New York, to a club date that would be documented on a pivotal album. John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard featured the saxophonist's expanding group with Eric Dolphy on ...

Rhonda Hamilton, guest-hosting for Dee Dee Bridgewater, is onstage at the 30th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival. She introduces Christian McBride as "the premier bass player of his generation." All in the huge Motor City crowd cheer for that.

Born in Philadelphia on May 31, 1972, McBride showed ...

Norwegian saxophonist Ole Mathisen and trombonist Chris Washburne, who met as students in Boston 25 years ago, work at the front line of the quartet FFEAR. Ole's brother Per Mathisen plays bass alongside drummer Tony Moreno in this Oct. 23, 2010, performance at Miller Theatre at New York's Columbia University, ...

The 2011 Encuentro! Latin Jazz Festival at NJPAC takes place Oct. 29, and JazzSet will be there for Omar Sosa and the Gonzalez Brothers.

The Alternate Routes series at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center pairs jazz with Latin music — or you might hear it as Latin music ...

Randy Weston was born in Brooklyn in 1926, and the late Ray Bryant was born in Philadelphia in 1931. (Scroll down the page to hear the late Bryant performing solo in the 1980s.) Together in New York City in the 1960s, the two pianists demonstrated the history of ...

This month, JazzSet is celebrating ten years with host Dee Dee Bridgewater with three shows that feature her onstage: the Women in Jazz All-Stars, Ella!, and next week, her duets with the five young, prodigious finalists in the American Pianists Association competition for the 2011 Cole Porter Fellowship.

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Calling them "stars" is putting it mildly. This amazing group delivered an exuberant, committed, one-night-only concert at the 15th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. Then, one by one, took off to fly higher and higher.

In this group, Geri Allen takes Mary Lou Williams' seat ...

Rehearsing for the concert with all these friends, "I saw my life flash before my eyes," Gary Burton says with pleasure from the stage.

In 1960, at age 17, Burton came from Indiana to study at Berklee, a music school in a Boston brownstone. He stayed and helped transform ...

Mulgrew Miller comes from Greenwood, Miss., and attended Memphis State University. After that, he went to work with the Mercer Ellington Orchestra, Betty Carter, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, trumpeter Woody Shaw and drummer Tony Williams. Few could claim such a jazz lineage, yet Miller doesn't drop names. He ...

We've just learned that Andrew Kratzat, bassist with the Hot Club of Detroit, and his fiancée Alicia, a violinist, were badly injured in a car accident on August 16 near Ann Arbor, Mich. His bandmates posted a message to Kratzat's many fans on the Hot Club of Detroit website.

Simultaneous, multiple, mega-sized concerts for three days — that's the agenda at the mighty North Sea Jazz Festival, held every July in a huge convention center in Rotterdam. For every show you catch, you miss half a dozen, so hardcore fans plot their evenings in advance, and leave one set ...

James Carter is big and tall, a saxophone master with a smile. Always sharp and with chapeau, the Detroit-based player brings a cache of saxes of all sizes to the Harbor Stage at the Newport Jazz Festival. Then, with a "How y'all doin? How y'all be?" James runs ...